quadruped
A Word with Latin Root, Prefix or Suffix
quad-
A Word with Latin Root, Prefix or Suffix
quadruped
a four-foot animal, especially a mammal
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Dissection of quadruped
quadruped = quad- (four) + ru (together with quad-, quadru also means four, used before p) + ped (foot);
quadruped = four-foot animal
Now Repeat my Dissection
quadruped = four-foot animal
Important roots for this word:
ped
quad-
Note: You may sometimes find that a vowel such as o is often inserted between two roots, as o inserted between phon and graph in phonograph = phon + o + graph, the reason is for easy pronounciation. Another example is archaeology = archae + o + logy
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